DSMP-ESS | Plugin Overview
DSMP-ESS is a central utility and essentials plugin tailored for the DeepslateSMP Minecraft server. It focuses on integrating multiple APIs to provide a seamless, high-performance experience with modern visual styling.
🚀 Key Features
1. Dynamic Tablist & Visuals
- Modern Branding: Displays a customizable server name using MiniMessage gradients and bold styling in the Tablist header.
- Real-time Performance: Shows live TPS (Ticks Per Second) from the Spark API in the footer.
- Player Identity: Synchronizes player names in the list with LuckPerms prefixes and custom metadata colors. It also displays a special "Economy Team" tag.
- Activity Monitoring: Sends automated Action Bar updates using the Plan API to show current player activity groups.
2. Intelligent Systems
- Adaptive Join Messages: Greets players with a welcome message that conditionally displays their protocol version (ViaVersion) and current server population. It hides empty data to maintain a clean UI.
- Automatic Diagnostic Audits: Every time a player joins, the plugin verifies that all required PlaceholderAPI (PAPI) extensions (LuckPerms, ViaVersion, etc.) are installed and warns administrators if anything is missing.
3. Integrated Command Suite
/ping: Instant latency check for players./tps: Detailed server performance metrics across various time intervals./dc//discord: Interactive, clickable chat links with hover effects to join the community./about: Displays current plugin version and developer credits for QuatschStudio Games.
4. Custom Chat Formatting
- Utilizes a modern AsyncChatEvent renderer to inject group-specific colors and prefixes directly into the chat, ensuring a consistent aesthetic across the server.
🛠 Technical Specifications
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| API Integration | Deeply hooked into LuckPerms, PlaceholderAPI, ViaVersion, Spark, and Plan. |
| Styling Engine | Uses Adventure MiniMessage for advanced formatting (Gradients, Hovers, Clicks). |
| Threading | Optimized for Folia/Paper using the GlobalRegionScheduler for thread-safe periodic tasks. |
| Config Driven | Server names, colors, and links are fully customizable via config.yml. |
📋 Configuration Options
The plugin's behavior is controlled through a dedicated configuration file:
server-name: Define the identity of your server.server-color: Define the primary brand color or gradient.discord-link: Manage the community invitation URL.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as DSMP-ESS-PROD-v0.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 12 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.